For those who have hit your dream drive down the middle from the fairway only to uncover it lying in a fresh divot or experienced a birdie putt deflected off line due to a decaying pitch mark for the green, you can sympathize using the subsequent tale.

I recently acquired out for the golf day out training course for a unusual Monday morning tee away with the boys. As per typical, I received there an hour earlier to tune up the game and hopefully set up some sort of rhythm to my swing. For the practice eco-friendly I ran into our groundskeeper Soft sand. I’ve been playing the training course for five years now and also have gotten to know Soft sand quite well. We normally exchange some smaller speak about my evolving pull-slice and her never-ending battle with eco-friendly and fairway servicing. I approached Soft sand and asked my common “How are they rollin’ currently?” Sandy just sighed and mutter some curse word regarding the ‘weekenders’ her term for the visitors that flock to our neck in the woods just about every weekend within the summer time. When I enquired if they had left the course a mess, she replied using a “You acquired a minute?”

With that, we had been away in her cart to eco-friendly range one. Soft sand parked and proceeded to guide me through the now pock-marked eco-friendly. She was in a position to recognize and distinguish pitch marks (frequently known as ball marks) that she had to fix herself simply because golfers above the weekend possibly didn’t carry the time or were just unaware of the destruction they were definitely doing. Sandy’s crew, in lieu of investing beneficial time performing other corporate golf day training course upkeep, had been all out repairing thousands of abandoned marks that ended up left within the other greens.

Our tour concluded which has a slow trip back lower the very first fairway. We stopped just about every couple of feet as Sandy spotted and filled various divot marks with her sand/seed mixture. Apparently the identical culprits who defaced her greens had done the identical to her lush fairways. Soft sand was not a pleased camper. “If only golfers have been forced being groundskeepers for a day,” Sandy lamented.

Repairing pitch marks and divots is The game of golf Etiquette 101, but several golfers still don’t do it. It is rapidly, effortless, and additional importantly, it would make Sandy’s day. Here’s how we can assist:

Repairing and Replacing divots:

1) Ask the the game of golf program superintendent if you will discover any exceptional procedures to stick to as playing golf courses usually are not uniform within the varieties of grass and mixtures they use.

2) You’ve just strike a good wedge towards green. Understandably your concentrate and corporate golf events was within the flight of one’s ball. Nonetheless, you now have the responsibility of repairing that blemish you made inside fairway. Either a) take the sand/seed mixture that may be around the side of the cart and fill the hole, tapping it lower to generate essentially the most level lie achievable or b) go and retrieve the turf you carved out (or its several pieces) and replace it back again on the hole. Make certain which you change the grass inside similar direction it came out. Also, tap it into the ground securely to ensure the grounds crew won’t rip it our with their lawnmowers and making sure that the roots can bring hold on the ground yet again. Occupation well carried out! Now on to that pitch mark you just produced around the eco-friendly.